linux.git/mm/Kconfig, branch v3.9

Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed

2013-03-12T18:16:40+00:00

In commit 887cbce0adea ("arch Kconfig: centralise ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS")
I introduced the config sybmol HAVE_VIRT_TO_BUS and selected that where
needed.  I am not sure what I was thinking.  Instead, just directly
select VIRT_TO_BUS where it is needed.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

arch Kconfig: centralise CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS

2013-02-28T03:10:23+00:00

Change it to CONFIG_HAVE_VIRT_TO_BUS and set it in all architecures
that already provide virt_to_bus().

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Reviewed-by: James Hogan 
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas 
Cc: H Hartley Sweeten 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memory-hotplug: implement register_page_bootmem_info_section of sparse-vmemmap

2013-02-24T01:50:12+00:00

For removing memmap region of sparse-vmemmap which is allocated bootmem,
memmap region of sparse-vmemmap needs to be registered by
get_page_bootmem().  So the patch searches pages of virtual mapping and
registers the pages by get_page_bootmem().

NOTE: register_page_bootmem_memmap() is not implemented for ia64,
      ppc, s390, and sparc.  So introduce CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
      and revert register_page_bootmem_info_node() when platform doesn't
      support it.

      It's implemented by adding a new Kconfig option named
      CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE, which will be automatically selected
      by memory-hotplug feature fully supported archs(currently only on
      x86_64).

      Since we have 2 config options called MEMORY_HOTPLUG and
      MEMORY_HOTREMOVE used for memory hot-add and hot-remove separately,
      and codes in function register_page_bootmem_info_node() are only
      used for collecting infomation for hot-remove, so reside it under
      MEMORY_HOTREMOVE.

      Besides page_isolation.c selected by MEMORY_ISOLATION under
      MEMORY_HOTPLUG is also such case, move it too.

[mhocko@suse.cz: put register_page_bootmem_memmap inside CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE]
[linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com: introduce CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE and revert register_page_bootmem_info_node()]
[mhocko@suse.cz: remove the arch specific functions without any implementation]
[linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com: mm/Kconfig: move auto selects from MEMORY_HOTPLUG to MEMORY_HOTREMOVE as needed]
[rientjes@google.com: fix defined but not used warning]
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang 
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu 
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen 
Reviewed-by: Wu Jianguo 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Jiang Liu 
Cc: Jianguo Wu 
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki 
Cc: Lai Jiangshan 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Lin Feng 
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)

2013-02-22T01:38:49+00:00

Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton:

 - Florian has vanished so I appear to have become fbdev maintainer
   again :(

 - Joel and Mark are distracted to welcome to the new OCFS2 maintainer

 - The backlight queue

 - Small core kernel changes

 - lib/ updates

 - The rtc queue

 - Various random bits

* akpm: (164 commits)
  rtc: rtc-davinci: use devm_*() functions
  rtc: rtc-max8997: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-max8907: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-da9052: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-wm831x: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-tps80031: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-lp8788: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-coh901331: use devm_clk_get()
  rtc: rtc-vt8500: use devm_*() functions
  rtc: rtc-tps6586x: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-imxdi: use devm_clk_get()
  rtc: rtc-cmos: use dev_warn()/dev_dbg() instead of printk()/pr_debug()
  rtc: rtc-pcf8583: use dev_warn() instead of printk()
  rtc: rtc-sun4v: use pr_warn() instead of printk()
  rtc: rtc-vr41xx: use dev_info() instead of printk()
  rtc: rtc-rs5c313: use pr_err() instead of printk()
  rtc: rtc-at91rm9200: use dev_dbg()/dev_err() instead of printk()/pr_debug()
  rtc: rtc-rs5c372: use dev_dbg()/dev_warn() instead of printk()/pr_debug()
  rtc: rtc-ds2404: use dev_err() instead of printk()
  rtc: rtc-efi: use dev_err()/dev_warn()/pr_err() instead of printk()
  ...

block: optionally snapshot page contents to provide stable pages during write

2013-02-22T01:22:20+00:00

This provides a band-aid to provide stable page writes on jbd without
needing to backport the fixed locking and page writeback bit handling
schemes of jbd2.  The band-aid works by using bounce buffers to snapshot
page contents instead of waiting.

For those wondering about the ext3 bandage -- fixing the jbd locking
(which was done as part of ext4dev years ago) is a lot of surgery, and
setting PG_writeback on data pages when we actually hold the page lock
dropped ext3 performance by nearly an order of magnitude.  If we're
going to migrate iscsi and raid to use stable page writes, the
complaints about high latency will likely return.  We might as well
centralize their page snapshotting thing to one place.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen 
Cc: Ron Minnich 
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

2013-01-17T20:11:27+00:00

The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a
while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the
Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs.

CC: Andrew Morton 
CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
CC: Jan Beulich 
CC: Mel Gorman 
CC: Seth Jennings 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

memory-hotplug: document and enable CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE

2012-12-18T23:02:12+00:00

Add help info for CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE and permit its selection.

This option allows the user to online all memory of a node as movable
memory.  So that the whole node can be hotplugged.  Users who don't use
the hotplug feature are also fine with this option on since they won't
online memory as movable.

Signed-off-by: Tang Chen 
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu 
Cc: Lai Jiangshan 
Cc: Wen Congyang 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak help text]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

2012-12-13T21:11:15+00:00

Merge misc VM changes from Andrew Morton:
 "The rest of most-of-MM.  The other MM bits await a slab merge.

  This patch includes the addition of a huge zero_page.  Not a
  performance boost but it an save large amounts of physical memory in
  some situations.

  Also a bunch of Fujitsu engineers are working on memory hotplug.
  Which, as it turns out, was badly broken.  About half of their patches
  are included here; the remainder are 3.8 material."

However, this merge disables CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE, which was totally
broken.  We don't add new features with "default y", nor do we add
Kconfig questions that are incomprehensible to most people without any
help text.  Does the feature even make sense without compaction or
memory hotplug?

* akpm: (54 commits)
  mm/bootmem.c: remove unused wrapper function reserve_bootmem_generic()
  mm/memory.c: remove unused code from do_wp_page()
  asm-generic, mm: pgtable: consolidate zero page helpers
  mm/hugetlb.c: fix warning on freeing hwpoisoned hugepage
  hwpoison, hugetlbfs: fix RSS-counter warning
  hwpoison, hugetlbfs: fix "bad pmd" warning in unmapping hwpoisoned hugepage
  mm: protect against concurrent vma expansion
  memcg: do not check for mm in __mem_cgroup_count_vm_event
  tmpfs: support SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE (reprise)
  mm: provide more accurate estimation of pages occupied by memmap
  fs/buffer.c: remove redundant initialization in alloc_page_buffers()
  fs/buffer.c: do not inline exported function
  writeback: fix a typo in comment
  mm: introduce new field "managed_pages" to struct zone
  mm, oom: remove statically defined arch functions of same name
  mm, oom: remove redundant sleep in pagefault oom handler
  mm, oom: cleanup pagefault oom handler
  memory_hotplug: allow online/offline memory to result movable node
  numa: add CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE for movable-dedicated node
  mm, memcg: avoid unnecessary function call when memcg is disabled
  ...

numa: add CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE for movable-dedicated node

2012-12-13T01:38:34+00:00

We need a node which only contains movable memory.  This feature is very
important for node hotplug.  If a node has normal/highmem, the memory may
be used by the kernel and can't be offlined.  If the node only contains
movable memory, we can offline the memory and the node.

All are prepared, we can actually introduce N_MEMORY.
add CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE make we can use it for movable-dedicated node

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix Kconfig text]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan 
Tested-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu 
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang 
Cc: Jiang Liu 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Yinghai Lu 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Greg KH 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility

2012-12-12T01:22:26+00:00

Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce significantly
the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be used within a guest,
thus imposing performance penalties associated with the reduced number of
transparent huge pages that could be used by the guest workload.

This patch introduces a common interface to help a balloon driver on
making its page set movable to compaction, and thus allowing the system
to better leverage the compation efforts on memory defragmentation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP, s/__balloon_page_flags/page_flags_cleared/, small cleanups]
[rientjes@google.com: allow balloon compaction for any system with memory compaction enabled, which is the defconfig]
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds